The Abia Warriors Post
Market20 Nov 2028
Chindi Merpring asks to leave Abia Warriors
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match20 Nov 2028
Abia Warriors are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 65 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market20 Nov 2028
Kelvin Ihunwo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Abia Warriors they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Tempers go at Abia Warriors
Chukwuemeka Obioma was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Ajayi Okikiola out for 43 days
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Ajayi Okikiola, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad20 Nov 2028
a squad player wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Abia Warriors can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Nzubechi Sunday falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
Nmecha Johnson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nmecha Johnson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 Nov 2028
Chindi Merpring linked with a move away
The name of Chindi Merpring keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Abia Warriors say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes David Chinagorom a promise
- The dugout The manager comes out for Suraju Lawal